plasticity

noun

1. the quality or state of being plastic.
2. the capability of being molded, receiving shape, or being made to assume a desired form: the plasticity of social institutions; the great plasticity of clay.

noun

1. the quality of being plastic or able to be moulded
2. (in pictorial art) the quality of depicting space and form so that they appear three-dimensional

1782, from plastic + -ity.